Free instal Salt and Sacrifice1/12/2024 ![]() Recently, possible evidence for burnt animal sacrifice was reported for several Mycenaean sites by the means of observation of heavily burnt and carbonized animal bones taken as indication for this kind of offering (as distinguished from unburnt or lightly charred osteological material taken to represent the refuse left from ritual meals). The question of whether the ritual of burnt animal sacrifice (θυσία or ‘Brandopfer’), involving the ritual burning of bare bones wrapped in fat and covered with small pieces of meat representing the god’s portion, was practiced in Mycenaean Greece has been the subject of some discussion.
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